Archives for Language features, Development Methodologies - Page 10
Converting from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY only in excel
Lately, I needed to go through a column full of dates – in the format MM-DD-YYYY. The thing is , I didn’t care for the day or the month of…
Safe(r) Domain Search
I was underwhelmed at the 'safe' domain search agents available. I particular encountered trust issues with some of the bigger registrars out there - including and hostgator. Two options that…
Privacy and Security for consumer laptops
Those free WIFI connections in cafes do not encrypt network traffic. This implies that anyone on the same WIFI network as you is able to ‘sniff’ your traffic and possibly…
Windows 10 Wifi
Just when I was getting used to Windows 10 (DEFINITELY an improvement on Windows 8), I started encountering frequent disconnects and dropped connections. Here are a few things to try:…
TOGAF versus Zachman versus FEA
Zachman tells you how to categorize your artifacts. TOGAF gives you a process for creating them. TOGAF complements Zachman - and isn’t in competition with it. TOGAF views the enterprise…
GroupBy in LINQ
The group clause enables you to group your results based on a key that you specify. For example you could specify that the results should be grouped by the City…
Agile versus Scrum versus SAFe–Some notes
Agile is a development methodology - without a specific implementation. Prior to agile, developers worked in silos without cross collaboration. Agile introduced cross functional teams as well as concepts like…
UML diagrams
Class Diagram UseCase Diagram Activity Diagram Use Case Diagram
The benefits of Agile Development
Why Agile? Agility avoids disasters before they happen. Two key aspects of agile development:Software is in an always 'releasable' state (working prototype).Test Driven development catches bugs before they make it out…
Creating and Using Drop Down lists in Excel
Using the drop down list values in a cell In the Cell, Click Data >Data the Settings tab, in the Allow box, click List. In the Source box, type and…